At 10:42 AM -0000 11/28/96, John Buckman wrote:
>LISTSERV, ListProc and Majordomo. Every message which goes out to a
>list member is slightly different. Each message contains the
>member's name and ID in the SMTP header, so that if the message
Wow. Please forgive the strength of my statement, but I'd like to
congratulate you on an astonishingly bad design decision. You've used an
entirely good and reasonable rationale for making a design decision that
creates horrible scaling performance and will aid in the congestion of the
net, if your product becomes successful.
>The To: address of every message is always the recipient's email
>address, not the list name. This makes it simple for the recipient
>to determine what email address they are subscribed with.
>
>I don't know of any list server which has these capabilities.
As noted by others, the human factors of your design also is
problematic, since this makes things a royal pain to filter. I use Eudora
so no, it's not just the "ability" to do filtering, it's the criteria and
the need to use a different model. And no, this isn't unique. I'm on some
other lists that do this and I really don't like it.
d/
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